Sentence examples for sedentary role from inspiring English sources

As a relief from the hard labour of Lear, three times a week the company performs Chekhov's shorter tragedy, The Seagull, in which McKellen plays the elderly and mercifully sedentary role of Sorin.

A 10,000-word manifesto released in Arabic by one of the group's numerous propaganda wings earlier this year the "sedentary" role of women as homemakers, wives and mothers, heavily criticising Western women and human rights concepts of gender equality.

The document, entitled 'Women in the Islamic State: Manifesto and Case Study', emphasises the "sedentary" role of women as homemakers, wives and mothers, heavily criticising Western women and human rights concepts of gender equality.

Traditionally, and in many cases still today, the role of women is defined as 'inside the community', having a more sedentary role close to the homestead than men.

When the Vi Agroforestry started to introduce the practice of enclosures in the 1980s, the sedentary role of women 'inside the community', and their responsibility for household food subsistence, made them more willing to embrace the new land use techniques and eventually became early adapters of enclosures in the form of kitchen gardens.

Given that persons seeking chiropractic care are just as likely as others to smoke and be overweight or obese and sedentary, the role for chiropractic in encouraging health promotion and disease prevention activities also cannot be underestimated [ 35].

Decreased VO2 max (− 1.75%) in the control group may be explained by the sedentary job roles performed by these employees [2].

Increases in the control group's BMI (3.5%) may be attributable to the increased plasma glucose, triglycerides, lipoprotein and waist circumference associated with sedentary job roles [2].

In addition, Gubbels et al. [ 37] found the highest incidence of obesity in their "sedentary-snacking" cluster, which highlights the role of sedentary behavior/media use in terms of weight gain.

1 Recently, there has been considerable interest in understanding the role of sedentary behaviours on health, independent of overall physical activity levels, 2 4 since one can be both sedentary and physically active (eg, an office worker who sits most of his work hours, but who also jogs regularly).

Few studies have used accelerometry to examine the role of sedentary activities on metabolic risk (13, 14).